grinalds's comments

I'm color deficient --- failed the tests at school where you pick out the letters/numbers from the bubbles --- and I got a 100% on apple and a 0% on Batman...:(

Deep learning is an interesting approach - although the features that DL algorithms decide are most important are not always intuitive or weighted properly in context. Partial-feature engineering is sometimes the only way to effectively deal with biases, especially in higher-dimensional space where the DL features can be very opaque.

Enterprise sales has its own set of issues which lead to generally a long sales cycle.

Corporate inertia, difficulties finding key decision makers, the start-up stigma (no big company wants to be reliant on a start-up that might not be around in a year's time.)

These roadblocks make it difficult for enterprise-focused start-ups to diagnose lack of traction. Is it product? Distribution? Market?

These issues aren't as pronounced in consumer internet start-ups. The end-user is your target (not some manager who will never use/understand the product), and fortunately around here, users are willing to try most anything. Think of how many apps you have downloaded that you don't use anymore.

Start-ups are inherently hard, and each market has its own set of challenges.

Interesting piece, one part struck at me as a bit ironic, and overly lawyerly.

On one hand the author says:

"The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth."

and

"Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating....It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence."

On the other hand he says:

"Every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross. ... It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions."

There is great contradiction in these two opposing statements.

First of all - the example that he cites, Jesus being nailed to the cross, is a fallacy. Jesus was killed as a direct result of his truth telling at all times, convenient and not - and his sticking to his convictions.

Second - I wonder if greatness, or love or hatred for that matter is worth achieving if you not been honest in attaining it. If you withhold the truth you feel in your heart, feel comfort in silence and make sure not to step on any toes - the recognition that you receive must also be a false one.

Greatness made by silencing the truth follows "be loved"

Both require "much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone."